Seema Kumari | |
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Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly | |
In office 2012–2017 | |
Preceded by | Post Established |
Succeeded by | Joginder Pal |
Constituency | Bhoa |
Personal details | |
Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Spouse | Vinod Kumar |
Residence(s) | Lahri, Pathankot, Punjab, India |
Seema Kumari is an Indian politician and a member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).[1][2]
Kumari is married to Vinod Kumar.[3]
Kumari was elected sarpanch of Lahri village in 2008 and in 2012 was elected to the Punjab Legislative Assembly from Bhoa,[4] a constituency then reserved for candidates from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.[2] Then aged 33, she was the youngest member of the assembly.[5]
Kumari stood as a candidate in the 2017 state assembly elections but faced criticism because of suspicions regarding an increase in her income.[6] Described as the poorest MLA in the state in 2012, based on her declared assets in an election affidavit, they had grown almost 30-fold by 2017.[5] She lost her seat in Bhoa to Joginder Pal of the Indian National Congress.[7]